Right from the pre-set, Les Enfants Terribles create a visually striking and highly fantastical world of circus and carnival, where anything seems possible. We find ourselves looking at the entrance to an old fashioned circus tent, reminiscent of 1930s Spiegel-style construction, resplendent with signs and pictures promising delights within, and it quickly becomes apparent that […]

Today’s instalment of the Treelogy, a trio of fast-paced and partially improvised shows on childhood stories featuring trees by young company Sleeping Trees, was a hilarious parody of Treasure Island.  Versions of The Magic Faraway Tree and The Odyssey are also to be performed in a similar style, on different days. This production was nominated […]

Collaborative company KILN, formerly Kindle company from Birmingham, are having a busy Fringe with three shows at Summerhall this festival. A Journey Round My Skull is the newest of these productions, a solo for performer Olivia Winteringham in which she plays a German neurosurgeon discussing the story of her patient. On stage, her consulting room […]

Curious Directive’s latest production has much in common with their earlier work After the Rainfall, which struck me as being fragmented, complex and full of big ideas and clever ways of weaving together seemingly disparate narratives. Pioneer indeed contains all of these elements, and in doing so explores perhaps one of the biggest ideas that […]

In Echolalia, solo performer Jen McArthur brings to life the story of Echo, an autistic woman inhabiting a world made tiny by her own hand. Within the walls of her simply furnished little house, she is safe from an outside world that seems to overwhelm her. Inside these restrictive parameters, Echo has created an environment […]